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Political Trust
This book, by Sonja Zmerli and Marc Hooghe, presents cutting-edge empirical research on political trust as a relational concept. From a European comparative perspective it addresses a broad range of contested issues. Can political trust be conceived as a one-dimensional concept and to what extent do international population surveys warrant the culturally equivalent measurement of political trust across European societies? Is there indeed an observable general trend of declining levels of political trust? What are the individual, societal and political prerequisites of political trust and how do they translate into trustful attitudes? Why do so many Eastern European citizens still distrust th...
Generating Social Capital
Social capital - networks of civic engagements, norms of reciprocity, and attitudes of trust - is widely seen as playing a key role for the health of democracy. While many authors have examined the consequences of social capital, there is a pressing need to explore its sources. This collection brings together leading American and European scholars in the first comparative analysis of how social trust and other civic attitudes are generated. The contributors to this volume examine the generation of social capital from two directions: society-based approaches that emphasize voluntary associations, and institutional approaches that emphasize policy.
Electoral Rules and Electoral Behaviour
Across representative democracies, there is a strong variation in the rules that govern the electoral process. A classic insight in political science is that these rules, e.g., the presence of a majoritarian or a proportional system have a profound effect on the way a democracy functions. We know less however, about the way voters actually respond to these electoral rules. This kind of effect presupposes that voters not only are aware of the electoral system, but also that they adapt to the incentives offered by the system. In this volume, a group of international scholars investigate whether this is indeed the case. The various chapters in this volume deal with the effect of proportionality...
Making a Difference
This book is a cross-national analysis of the role of the Internet in elections. It examines the role of context in shaping candidate and party usage of the Internet in democratic electoral systems.
Sociaal kapitaal in Vlaanderen
Verenigingen leveren een belangrijke bijdrage aan het sociaal kapitaal binnen een samenleving, zo blijkt uit internationaal onderzoek. Ze verbinden mensen met elkaar en met de publieke zaak, ze bieden een dam tegen individualisering en ze zorgen voor de verspreiding van democratische waarden. In Sociaal kapitaal in Vlaanderen gaat politicoloog en socioloog Marc Hooghe na hoe we dit effect van verenigingen kunnen verklaren. Zijn stelling luidt dat verenigingen bepaalde waarden cultiveren en versterken: niet alle verenigingen dragen dus automatisch bij tot de vorming van een democratische politieke cultuur, maar enkel die verenigingen waarbinnen die waarden ook de nodige aandacht krijgen. Hooghe ondersteunt zijn stelling met materiaal van een unieke bevolkingsonderzoek uit Vlaanderen, maar zijn onderzoek, dat verder bouwt op het werk van de Amerikaanse politicoloog Robert Putnam, richt zich tot een internationaal publiek. Verenigingen zijn geen wondermiddel tegen individualisering en onverdraagzaamheid, maar ze kunnen wel een bescheiden steentje bijdragen.
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'New' Citizens, New Policies?
This book sheds light on the policies pursued by the authorities in Canada and Flanders in terms of their expectations of 'newcomers'.
Handbook on Political Trust
Political trust – in government, parliament, or political parties – has taken centre stage in political science for more than half a century, reflecting ongoing concerns with the legitimacy and functioning of representative democracy. To provide scholars, students and policy makers with a tool to navigate through the complexity of causes and consequences of political trust, this Handbook offers an excellent overview of the conceptual, theoretical, methodological and empirical state of the art, complemented by accounts of regional particularities, and authored by international experts in this field.
